This study examines the efficiency, ease of use and ease of understanding of user
interface designs implemented in current e-commerce websites. Four South African
based e-commerce websites formed the test cases of this ...

Individuals are not comfortable when disclosing their personal information to corporate organisations and are becoming increasingly concerned. Decision criteria needed for privacy protection are more complex than those ...

The paper provides discussions on articulation between university and technikon LIS education and training in the context of: the historical evolution and traditional purposes of university and technikon education and ...

Spectral unmixing of hyperspectral images are
based on the knowledge of a set of unknown endmembers.
Unique characteristics of hyperspectral dataset enable different
processing problems to be resolved using robust ...

This paper reports on a study that uses a combination of techniques to formally characterize and determine the critical success factors influencing the effective usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, with ...

It is important for Africa to blaze its own unique path in terms of developing ILS qualification models that would be realistic and relevant to the African context and, importantly, add value to African library and information ...

Small businesses are vital for employment and job creation in South Africa. The implementation of sound cash management practices is essential to ensure to profitability and sustainability of any successful business. The ...

The aim of this research is to evaluate the communication proficiency of students studying Cost and Management Accounting (CMA) and to assess whether the subject communication, as a course, is having any positive influence ...

Economic Value Added (EVA) is a value based accounting measure used by companies to measure the amount of value created for shareholders.
Accounting values derived from company annual financial statements (AFS), are ...

This paper reports on a master’s study undertaken to investigate the impact of the digital divide on information literacy (IL) training of Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) students at the Durban University of Technology ...

This study investigated the impact of the digital divide on information literacy (IL) training of Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) students at the Durban University of Technology (DUT). There are students entering the ...

This paper provides an image shape representation technique known as Adaptive Kernel Density Feature Points Estimator (AKDFPE). In this method, the density of feature points within defined rings (bandwidth) around the ...

In this paper we describe a hybrid technique of Minimax search and aggregate Mahalanobis distance function synthesis to evolve Awale game player. The hybrid technique helps to suggest a move in a short amount of time without ...

Property, plant and equipment (PPE) constitute a significant portion of total assets of South African public higher education institutions. It is therefore important to keep proper records of the assets and to account for ...

This study aimed to identify the factors that affect change in attitudes of managers reaching positions of authority in Higher Educational Institutions. Traditionally, managers sat in their office and managed organizations. ...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) allows for the wireless transfer of data between a
small electronic transmitting tag and a reader without the necessity of line-of-sight. A
feature of RFID, is that this read operation ...

This study aimed to explore the impact of cognitive ability on the understanding
of computer programming by students enrolled for a programming course at the
University of KwaZulu-Natal. The rationale for this study is ...

The aim of the study was to investigate management and maintenance procedures that
were used by other sites and how these could be used as a basis for formulating management and maintenance procedures for the SALO subject ...

Research is taking place to find effective algorithms for content-based image representation and description. There is a substantial amount of algorithms available that use visual features (color, shape, texture). Shape ...